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Honestly I can't necessarily. It's just a personal preference. I like using this a little better than some other options. Trying to take a piece of the market share. Possibly combining shopping and todo in one app, but that's not terribly exciting.

I've done apps that were completely unique to the market at the time they were released that solved personal problems of mine. They didn't sell nearly as well as some of the apps that I've done that already had a big market and competition, but my app did a few small things better/differently. This is just an attempt to make a great looking list app that works well. A small piece of a really big pie can still be a good thing.

Also, we are around 700k apps on the iOS market. Most of the obvious things have been done. Taking market share is a perfectly viable way to make a business. Just ask Pepsi.
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see also: http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/10/zynga-inc-znga-poker-chief-...

Troubles seem to be following the struggling game maker, Zynga Inc
(NASDAQ:ZNGA), this time now with the exit of Laurence “Lo” Toney, an executive
who oversaw the company’s hugely popular online poker game.

Tony’s exit was revealed via his LinkedIn profile, where he changed his current
profession to “mentor at MuckerLab,” a Los Angeles startup accelerator, and
lists Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) among his previous professions.

[...]

Tony now joins the list of top-level executives who left Zynga Inc
(NASDAQ:ZNGA) in the past couple of months. In September, Chief technology
officer Allan Leinwand and chief marketing and revenue officer Jeff Karp
resigned, while in August, chief operating officer John Schappert and chief
creative officer Mike Verdu left the company. Not only this, but the game maker
also witnessed the exit of two vice presidents, Bill Mooney and Brian
Birtwistle, at the end of August.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "can't afford that."

If you think Ubuntu provides you with $X in value but you literally do not have $X to your name, well, I'm not sure how it could be providing $X to you, then.

You could be totally broke and feel like Ubuntu has the potential to provide you with $X in value (by helping you get a job, for example). You could just donate when the value is realized, not before.

Maybe you didn't mean that you literally don't have $X, but instead meant that you might not feel like it's worth paying $X for what you get out of it. In that case your choice of X was simply too high.

I don't really like the phrase "Pay what you think it's worth" for two reasons.

One of my issues with it is that it's easy to think of it as a fixed impersonal price rather than something that varies from person to person at any given time.

The other issue is that, as a developer, I do NOT want users paying what my products are worth to them. I want them to pay less than that, so they get something out of the deal. I want people to be better off for having acquired my software, I do not want to extract 100% of the value they get out of it in exchange.
Is this site just Wikipedia search? I only tried a handful of queries, but even very general ones like "google" or "flowers" returned only Wikipedia pages.
It'd be most sensible to show up at multiple, carefully selected points in time.

For example all Xbox Live Arcade games are required to have a trial (demo) which can be seamlessly upgraded to the full version at anytime. Every trial is required to award the player an Xbox Live achievement and Xbox Live Avatar Item at some point. When receiving either a pop-up occurs saying "You've earned <X>, unlock the full game now to keep it". Or something to that effect. Then of course there is a final upsell at the end of the trial.
> $1,383.75 + $80.00 (for full size)

On what planet is that problem solved?
> 45 minutes writing and rewriting task lists, then spend 15 minutes ....

Meh. My post was a generalization and I don't see the benefit of spending too much time (ha) arguing over the high-level time slots I put on the EXAMPLE. Maybe it's 15 minutes, maybe it is 5 minutes... really that's not all that important.

For me they are quick to do and give me a set of goals and I finish my products faster because of it. At the same time I'm hitting my long term and family goals. It's a win for me.

They don't work for you. Don't use them.
Basically, the accepted answered did something like this:

First, he noticed that the sand looks pretty uniform. You wouldn't be able to tell one patch of sand from another. So he just picked a random 200x200px square of sand.

Using this sample of sand, he analyzed the color distribution. Looking at it, he decided the color of a given pixel of sand-sample can be modelled reasonably well by assuming a random gaussian distribution (think bell curve).

Next, he assumed the whole picture was sand. The black-and-white image at the end is essentially a plot of the likelihood that the corresponding picture in the original picture would have been a grain of sand, assuming the normal distribution found earlier. Black means "very likely" and white means "not so likely".

Since we argued earlier that any patch of sand in this picture is as good as any other, all of the sand appears black. The rover, and crucially, the foreign object, do not fit the modelled distribution, so they stand out in stark contrast.
This isn't answering your question but it seems others are and it's still good to say:

Spend some time learning maths.

I don't mean to say you shouldn't continue advancing in programming and I understand that you're in elementary school which is supposedly teaching you maths on a standard track but you are clearly a self-starter and would do well to advance independently.

Schools teach maths poorly. They generally focus on rote mechanics at a slow pace with very little to keep the interest of anyone and this is a big reason people (a) think they are bad at maths and (b) hate maths.

My elementary school barely advanced beyond arithmetic but, thanks in large part to programming, I independently advanced much faster than that. I still regret not pushing myself to go further but at least I got to spend most of my K-12 education ahead of the mathematics track.

I have no idea where you are in mathematics since "elementary school" is very broad, but BetterExplained (http://betterexplained.com/) is a great place to get some started. It can even give you a better grasp of addition and subtraction, let alone more advanced topics.
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While you're correct, I think such a message after installation and use will make it feel a little like nagware(a bit like how Windows prompts you to activate it) even if its a one time.
Canonical is commercial, the Ubuntu Foundation is not: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/UbuntuFoundation. Ubuntu's been accepting donations for quite a while, long before they added this.
Some points from someone who works as a mobile games publisher for an year.

1. The press prefer paid games/apps.

Launch your app as paid, reach the press, make some buzz and then change the price to free. With this move, lots of websites will talk about you and lots of user will want your app; but they will download as soon as you make it free.

If you want to charge for specific features, setup a in-app purchase.

2. 100,000 downloads is hard.

The first game (which is free) I launched achieved 100k downloads in the first month; that never happened again since.
And it is becoming harder every day; so I would suggest that you consider 200~400 downloads a 'good enough' perfomance.

3. Banner ads suck, focus on innovative medias.

The classic AdMob banner sucks and users are learning to ignore it.
Fullscreen banners, like Chartboost and Playhaven, are awesome and deliver a good eCPM ($10+). Also, Video ads (AdColony) works very well for most developers.

4. Apple's cut

They take 30% of every virtual sale; but you can sell physical products without paying them anything. Also, Apple don't make anything on your ads.

5. Android is... different

Focus on iOS, it is more predictable. Android is great, I'm a user myself; but I simply do not understand how they rank apps and how do users interact with apps.
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> the starting permutations are different for different contestants,

This seems silly, why?
Because they don't solve simultaneously so there is a risk of information leakage?
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Can you explain the reasoning behind that?
But in situations where code is really allocating lots of short-lived objects (e.g. functional code for optimizing compiler trees), the GC in a JVM is going to wipe the floor with any malloc() implementation.

Even an arena allocator?
Terrible UX. Not only does it make it nigh-impossible to hover over the other thumbnails, but transforms (scale most notably) often leave behind artifacts/borders as it does in this demo, putting white lines all over the images and their surroundings.
Ya, Jeff's a friend but this is insanity.
Not a bad idea. The areas where I have the biggest problems with Ubuntu is hardware support and new updates just breaking my system. It's so bad that I REALLY want to just go to Debian Stable as my primary OS. I just can't handle that much downtime to switch over at home and the office.

I'm a developer. I don't give a shit about a fancy desktop. I just want my hardware to work good with the O.S. and for updates not to wreck my system. Why? Because I just want to write code, run what services and daemons I need, and read shit on the internet.

It's really fn frustrating. I've been using Ubuntu for 4 years solid now when I ditched Windows. I'd be willing to donate to the two areas I highlighted, but if shit didn't get better....
"Strong opinions weakly held" he says: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-wea...
Ok, now I understand what the issue is. I guess a good solution would be to pass _gaq to my library initializer and push every value with a for cycle, instead of using concat. Thanks for the tip.
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Edis is not what I will call "professional". I got a UK VPS and was given an IP config such that the default gateway is outside of the subnet, with no explanation given.

After some rather heated exchange with William from Edis, where he:

- gave no explanation

- yelled at me in CAP and bold

- showed a lack of understanding of the slash notation (e.g. 192.168.1.100/24)

I went around Edis and poked the data center, and the matter was mystically resolved shortly after.

Besides, I also experienced an unscheduled and unannounced downtime once in my short time with them. These things only happen with low end VPS providers, and of course AWS EC2.
Elbonia?
A very good explanation, but I believe you are missing some steps at the end.

After he had the rover and bright object showing up white and the sand showing up as black, he removed any large connected white objects (In any image the largest block of 'non sand' would always be the rover). He then drew a circle around anything left over, which in this case was the mystery bright object.

The beauty of his approach is that its generic and can be applied to any photo of sand and rover to find interesting anomalies.
An atomic operation on a cacheline owned exclusively by the local CPU avoids any bus lock operations, but still serializes the pipeline to avoid conflicts caused by memory operations on the same CPU. This basically destroys your memory parallelism if you use it in a situation where the atomic instruction happens often (e.g. every time an object reference is loaded or stored).
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At least the food on the Indian AC trains is not that awful.
Can someone explain to me why a company would be priced below its "fundamentals"?
Fortran defaults to strict aliasing and C defaults to loose aliasing, leading to naive Fortran programs sometimes being optimized better than equivalent naive C programs. Or as some people say, "Fortran is faster than C".
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Edis also does KVM.
I think Unity is the least worthwhile part of Ubuntu but since it's already here, I'd like them to fund an alternative, not remove funding and keep it as it is.

Edit: The page should a "make the desktop less awesome" side of the slider. If Unity is what they mean by "awesome", it should be slid back.
Debian has done a lot, maybe the majority, of what makes Ubuntu possible?

Debian is an actual nonprofit that can accept donations, while Canonical is a for-profit company to which you can only give voluntary payments masquerading as donations?
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These projects are still extremely awesome for those of us running older CPUs!
they said the same with Nokia about valuation.
They were saying only it's patents are worth 7 B ... but at some point all NOK was valued at 6.1 B . It has recovered since, but the idea is that you can burn your cash real quickly if you're not earning new income
There's a hidden distinction between the calculations and the computations. Calculation is the arithmetic, computation is the administration: logic, order of operations, variable management, data structure, etc.

You don't need much calculation ability to be a good programmer. You absolutely need good computation skills, especially logic.

Maybe you can use programming to teach you more advanced maths. Matrices are a bizarre concept to me, but I understand arrays very easily.
fundamentals are subject to change. What the market looks at is it's future value. Right now, Zynga's future value is low and dark
I started writing a response about my experience as a designer at Mozilla and it got really long and I turned it into a blog post called "Code talks and designers don't speak the language." Thanks for inspiring me to come out of blog hibernation. http://skinnywhitegirl.com/blog/code-talks-and-designers-don...
If you need to super-optimize execution you can build C or ASM code and call it via a library or inline it into your high-level language. Java can call functions in shared libraries (or use JNI) and Perl can inline straight C or ASM.

I'm not sure why you'd want to get "all the juice" out of higher level languages, though. I thought the whole point was to abstract away from machine optimization? For example, to learn to write more efficient Perl I picked up "Mastering Algorithms with Perl" and it had loads of helpful tips.
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One of the most interesting conclusions of the study was that the evaluator's gender, specialization, or age, did not correlate with bias. An old male physics professor was as likely as a young female biology professor to discriminate against Jennifer.

This story is sort of old news, but this excerpt raising an interesting point. Namely, the use and abuse of the word 'bias'. Forward looking expectations may rightly take into account expectations of future performance. It does not follow that a resume of past performance is gender-neutral for future performance, even if it is exactly the same. In this respect, the bids for future services may still be (statistically) unbiased estimators. That is, it may actually be less likely that (on average) the gender's will produce over an entire career equal productivity. The more interesting question, is thus: is this true? The study is not structured to actually address the real issue. Furthemore, it appears to assume or imply the answer (viz bias will prevent such equal performance). But this is intellectually questionable.

Provided a non-zero probability of, for example, curtailing a career to care for children would be enough to produce the observed result, ordinally. Since this assumption is trivially true, by observation, this supports the hypothesis of merely (heterodox) forward looking expectations. This doesn't leave a warm fuzzy feeling, admittedly, and arguably employment managment is to blame for the underlying root causes. But if these issues are genuine concerns that are to be 'fixed,' first they need to be understood.

That being said, it has been reported that academics have returned questionaires ranking a (non-existent) law school as "middle of the pack," and they did so based soley on its brand name. Whether this is bias or sloppy thinking (hueristic vs expertise vs presitige bias), is also a good question. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle
At the very least, pipe-to-shell means you're left without an audit trail, if you're actually practicing that method.

With a downloadable executable or installer, I'm left with a file that I can save, checksum, scan for vulnerabilities, and/or refer to at a later date should I find that there are concerns I didn't discover initially.

curl-pipe-bash, especially in the absence of SSL/TLS, leaves me vulnerable to injection attacks, as well as invisible changes to the installer (so I don't know whether or not things have changed if I'm trying the same process later).

It's a very, very, very bad idea.

My prediction: this will all end in tears sooner or later. I'm actually hoping for sooner just so we can put an end to this foolishness.

As for Windows: I don't play there often, but my understanding is that most executables are now signed, so that the "download random binary from arbitrary website, run as Administrator" practice is at least very slightly less batshit insane than in the past.
Here's my suggestion:

Post the manual installer methods.

Post checksums.

Sign your checksums.
First thing I thought of, too.

And your post reminded me that there are people out there who don't know the glory that is Lord British. That dost sadden me.
It only selects a handful of results, and in most cases wikipedia seems to win completely.
My clients get billed for the time I spend improving their business, not for the time I spend on Hacker News.
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Commonly, in addition to cash burn, a company's assets are a) overstated b) will not fetch fair market value in a firesale c) have many additional costs during the bankruptcy process.

In addition, large funds cannot sell their shares instantly, therefore will depress value below net assets, in effect paying a premium to get out of the stock.
You can't transfer between Stripe accounts. Charges going through Connect have the same fees as ones not going through connect (namely, 2.9% and $0.30).

If you're using our application_fee parameter to take your own fee out of a transaction, you get the full amount you request. Both that full amount, and the Stripe fee for the charge, are subtracted from the total amount paid to the seller.

To illustrate, a $100 charge with a $1 application fee would end up sending $1 to the application, $3.20 to Stripe, and $95.80 to the seller.
who could have seen this coming? :)
Why is there no discussion of obligations? A company could have a lot of cash and real estate, but debt obligations could wipe out a ton of that value. I realize the discussion is about Zynga's deteriorating future but it seems that in order to draw any conclusioons from the stock price being lower than cash+real-estate a discussion of obligations is required.
They may have $X of cash or close-to-cash assets, but the company also isn't shutting down tomorrow and liquidating. They will continue to spend into the foreseeable future, making its probably future value something less than $X.

Basically, the future value of Zynga's games is worth less than the future revenue, creating an expected net value decrease.
You have to strain your imagination to see 10 competing companies? This is another bias routinely evident on HN: we think of public policy for new business models solely in terms of the best-known operator of that model; it's not about regulating livery, it's about regulating Uber. No.
Without knowing what he's looking for the 200x200px square sample might contain the foreign object, then it might never be found.
The expectation is that it will continually lose money down to the point of the valuation.

For example, say in an imaginary world I have a piece of real estate and its worth 500k right now but its pretty much assumed that because of X, Y and Z real estate in the area is going down on average 20%. Because of that if you are the buyer you'd argue that a fair price to buy the house is actually 400k. Same thing with companies - on average, investors think Zynga will be a loser down to the point of its current stock price.
"You see, I can no longer support a system that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive."

Is this an accurate representation of the current system?
The price of a stock as with any other price merely reflects supply and demand and not it's intrinsic value which is generally unknowable.

If you have an opportunity expected to double your money then it makes sense to sell an asset below 'asset value' to avoid taking on missed opportunity costs.

Example:

You have $1mm in Zynga stock @ $2.35, and no cash on hand.
You expect the stock to trade at $2.85 in 1 year.
You have the opportunity to buy APPL and expect AAPL to double in 1 year.

The EV of AAPL is $2 mm
The EV of Zynga is $1.21 mm

Therefore excluding transaction costs it's the smart play to sell Zynga stock for any price above $1.87.

Since you've probably lost heavily on Zynga you can use the tax losses from a sale to offset the gains from the APPL profit, where as holding Zynga for the EV would merely result in a reduced tax loss.
A couple of lines in your .vimrc and boom you have that and more.
Your reference to Debian stable made me curious. Do you think that has less disruption than only installing Ubuntu LTS releases?

I haven't used Debian after switching to Ubuntu pretty early on. These days I stick to LTS on servers but can't resist upgrading to the latest shiny stuff every 6 months. I've had issues with upgrades and assumed that if I had stayed in the LTS path only it would be smoother.

By the way Ubuntu releases an LTS release every two years and the last 3 Debian stable releases have happened at 2 year intervals, so the two seem comparable.
The "fundamentals" in this example are static. But presumably they're not going to fire everyone tomorrow, so at least a good proportion of their cash on hand is as good as spent.

Then, in order to stay in business, they might need to take on massive debt, or there's a chance of severe dilution, and the likelihood of this will lower the stock value further.

To take an extreme example, if everyone assumed the company was going to run itself into the ground, mortgaging its real estate, etc., until it has zero other options, then the stock would be basically right now $0, no matter how much real estate or cash in the bank in had right now.
So heartbreaking. The front-line folks at Zynga were worked to the bone, by so many insider accounts. Now all the stock they were counting on has had most of its value evaporate.

But that's life, right? Counting on equity is, simply, a gamble.

Except when you've rigged the table, as Pincus and his cronies have.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/10/05/zynga-kee...

They got to play by different rules than the folks whose hard work got them to IPO. Instead of being subject to lockup, like the rest of Zynga, they got to cash out early, before the true state of their company was fully appreciated by the market.

So what's the lesson?

Don't trust people willing to fuck people over to make a buck. You're not special. If there's a buck in it, you'll get fucked too.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...
I would think NASA spotted that bright spot using an algorithm. Do they have people staring at each photo looking for such small anomalies?